4:58 PM,
Jan. 26, 2014

This NOAA satellite image taken at 2 p.m EST shows clouds associated with a trough of low pressure moving into California.

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It looks like the dry stretch for Reno and the Sierra may come to an end as there are three chances this week for rain or snow, the National Weather Service said.

What's not clear is how much rain or snow will fall, weather service meteorologist Brian Brong said.

"That's really the hard part of the forecast, the part we have the last amount of confidence in," Brong said. It looks like there could be more than an inch of precipitation total in the Sierra, which if it fell only as snow could be more than a foot of snow. ...